A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.